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Secrets

10/20/2017, 19 Tracks, 1:09:22

Winner of the Gramophone Classical Music Award 2018 (Solo Vocal)

Featuring

  • Marianne Crebassa
  • Fazil Say
  • Claude Debussy
  • Maurice Ravel
  • Gabriel Fauré
  • Henri Duparc

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Composer Biography

Fazıl Say, a Turkish pianist and composer, is known for his involvement in the changing history of his homeland, as evidenced by his trilogy in homage to the Gezi Park protests.

Source: Booklet

Compositional Technique

Fazıl Say's Gezi Park 3 features a long, haunting vocalise with ornamentation and melismas that evoke laments from Eastern mourning rituals.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Maurice Ravel's Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera was commissioned by a singing teacher at the Paris Conservatoire to introduce students to contemporary vocal music.

Source: Booklet

Album & Artwork

The album title "Secrets" reflects the inner world of thoughts and emotions that mezzo-soprano Marianne Crebassa explores through the French songs.

Source: Booklet

Composer's Artistic Vision

French mélodie, an art song with piano accompaniment, is characterized by its elegance and refinement, drawing inspiration from sophisticated poetry to translate written words into song.

Source: Booklet

Composition History

Henri Duparc's mélodies on this album are part of a cycle of seventeen pieces for voice and piano, which he ceased composing in 1885 due to a nervous disorder.

Source: Booklet

Recording & Production

This album was recorded in March 2017 in the Großer Saal of the Stiftung Mozarteum in Salzburg, a world-renowned center for Mozart studies.

Source: Booklet

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